Bug 280821 (CVE-2007-4721)

Summary: CVE-2007-4721 Infinite loop in wireshark's DNP3 dissector
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bugs, kreilly, rvokal
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-4721
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Bug Depends On: 397441, 397451    
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-09-06 15:50:37 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-4721 to the following vulnerability:

Integer signedness error in the DNP3 dissector in Wireshark 0.99.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain DNP3 packet.

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/478497/100/0/threaded
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4347
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5LP0V00MAI.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018635
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/36392

Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-09-06 15:56:24 UTC
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security
impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue
severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2008-01-04 08:06:03 UTC
This CVE id was rejected by Mitre as duplicate of CVE-2007-6113:

** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.
ConsultIDs: CVE-2007-6113.
Reason: This candidate is a duplicate of CVE-2007-6113.
Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2007-6113 instead of this candidate.
All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent
accidental usage.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 397281 ***